Cigarette-holder case



April 24, 192s. 1,667,065

' l E. E. BROSIUS CIGARETTE HOLDER CASE Filed April 19. 1926 'IIAVIl/ll/rllllllIllllIl/m fz VII/lll v Patented Api'. 24, `1928.

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- Appnomanma april lamas. serial n. 109,905.

My present invention relates to a combined arette-holder case and pencil #especially apted for pocket Iuse or personal'wear, and designed to provide a sanitary receptacle for the cigar or cigarette-holder when the latter is not in use, and also for use as a lead pencil ofl the type involving a screw feed for thelead. As is well known to those familiar with the use of cigars and cigarettes, a holder is a desirable and necessary accessory, from various points of view, and the purpose of my invention is to provide such a case for the holder that may with convenience be carried inthe pocket and which also combines therewith a lead pencil, thus utilizin in the one article two devices' or articles t at are usually separated. By this combination of elements or articles both the cigarette-holder case and the lead pencil are readily accessible for use when needed and means are provided whereby the combined article may be retained in the pocket and occupy a mini.- mum of space therein for such art1cles.-

The case forms a sanitary receptacle or enclosure for the cigarette holder when not in use and at the same' time alsoforms a part of the pencil structure in affording the necessary length of the standard size of pencils.

The invention consists in certain 'novel combinations and arrangements of parts involving the pencil in which the cigaretteholder case is embodied as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodimentof my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged in accordance with the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of myy invention. c

Figure 1 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the combined cigarette-holder case and pencil, showin the cigarette-holder partly broken away or convenience of illustration.

Figure 2 is a perspective view ofthe inte- Figure 5 is a transverse sectional view at yline 5-5 of Figure, 1.

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional. view at lineJ6-6 of Fig. 2. p

In carrying out my invention I utilize a tubular ca portion 1 of suitable material, slze and sape having anvopen lower end wlth inwardly tapering wall or surface and a Nr Ormel-:.1

closed end in whichl an eraser as 2 is threaded. The eraser may be of rubber or composition-material and is used for erasing pencil marks etc. The cap lforms the cigaretteholder case and is provided with a sprin slip 3 of well known type by means of whic the combined article is retained in the pocket as usual. lWithin the case 1 is enclosed the cigarette-holder 4 which is of standard size and shape and manufactured of appropriate material with exterior screw threads 5 between' its body and the mouth-piece.

y The case 1 is fashioned with complementary, interior screw threads 6 for co-action with the exterior threads of the holder and it will be apparent that the holder is securedy in its case by means of the threaded engagement with the mouth-piece encased lin ,a reduced bore at its upper tapered end to lprovide an annular, interior shoulder .9

against which the head 10 of a magazinetube 11 snugly fits, and the head 10 as seen inFigure 1 also forms an abutment for' the outer open end kof the cigarette-holder.

At its lower end the magazine-tube is fashioned with an enlarged, circular head 12, and the lower end of the barrel enclosing the magazine-tube fits against this head 12.

To gain access to the magazine-tube for loading it or for withdrawing fresh leads therefrom, the wall of the tube is fashioned with a vertical slot 13 in which a slide gate or clip 14 is located. The ate frictionally engages the side walls of t eslot-and the former may be slid to one end of the slot to permit. introduction to or withdrawal of A 4 K A n "leads from the interior of the magazine through the slot, after which the gate .is slid to approximately central position in the slot to prevent displacement. of the remaining leads enclosed. 1n the magazine.

at the longitudinal center of the device within the heads 10 and 12 of the magazine which are .fashioned with central openings for this purpose, and the lead 15 is clutched at its upper end between`aJ gripping jaws 16 and 17. l

These jaws are fashioned integral with a propelling screw 18 inthe form of atube having a spiral or screw groove, 19 in its outer face. The'screw is movable longitudinally of a holder-tube/2O in which it is encased and the tube or sleeve 20 is provide'de with interioryspiral ribs. or screw threads 21 complementary to the grooves of .the screw 18. l

It `'will be understood .that the sleeve 20 is lfixed and the screw "18 and the lead 15 are movable with relation thereto to project or retract the lead 15.',The upper closed end 22 of the screw-holder or sleeve 2O projects lupwardly through the head 10 of the magazine tube, and on this closed end is fixed a ca 23 of suitable absorbent material asseen in igure 1 over-which the open outer end of the cigarette-holder slips and fits neatly.

When placed in osition in its case the ciga- .rette-holder is s ipped over this absorbent cap and this movement wipes the interior walls of the cigarette holder to clean them of nicotine or other accumulation in the' bore of the holder. t v

At its lower end the enclosing sleeve 2O has an exterior, annular flange 24 located below the head l2 ofthe magazine, and this ange is encased within a countersunk head 25 of the conical or tapered pencil point 26' which is rotatable with relatlon to the body The hea of the j l2 of the magazine body-may have an annular retaining flange 26 into which the head of the pencil point 26 fits and in pair of resilient pencil Afor propelling the lead 15.

which it rotates, the edge being crimped over the head as best seen in Figure 1.

'The lead is projected or 'propelled from its holder by rotation of the pencil point 26,

, thebody of the pencil of course being held The lead holder 'ofthe pencil is carriedV stationary during the turning movement of the pencil point, and the countersunk head 25 of the pencil point turns about the annular flange 251 of the Iholder sleeve as a center.

The tapered pencil point 26 is preferably hollow with an opening in its pointed end for the lead to project through, and within thev hollow Vpencil point is provided an oli'- set, guide bar 27 Afixed to rotate with and carried by thepencil 'point. rlhis bar coacts with one of the jaws, as 16, which has a groove 28 for the bar, for coupling the-lead screw 18 with the pencil-point 26 in order that these members may rotate together. Thus as the pencil point is rotated and r'etained against longitudinal movement, the lead-screw 18 is also rotated and also. given a longitudinal movement, in which latter movement itis guided by the, grooved jaw 16 sliding along the guide bar 2,7.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is f prising a case, acigarette holder engaged therein, a barrel engaged with the case, al f Atube mounted in the barrel, a cap of absorbent material carri'edby -the tube for engaging the'soc'ket of the holder when the lcase and barrel are vinterlocked with each associated with the barrel for cleansing the socket ofl the holder.

-In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

-f EDWARD lE; BRosIUs. 

